Bar-button.



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APPLIQATIOB FILED JAN. 1802.

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No. 742,145. Patented october 27, lees.

UNITED STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD L. ASHLEY, WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPO- RATION OF CONNECTICUT.

BAR-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,145, dated October 27, 1903. Application mea January e. 1902. serial No. 88,665. (No model.)

lo all whom t may concern,.- in g 4, are herein shown and may be as usual, 5o Be it known that I, EDWARD L. ASHLEY, a and the back and face-plate are united by citizen of the 'United States, residing at Waoverlapping the edge of theface-'plate upon terbury, in thecountyofNewI-Iaven andState the back. As already indicated, where no 5 of Connecticut, have invented a certain new face-plate is used, but a button of the openand useful Improvement in Bar-Buttons, of face varietyissupplied with myimprovement, 55 which the following is a full, clear, and exthe back will be modified so that its rim, act description. which is here shown as joined to the face- This invention relates to that class of butplate, will be flanged out to form the face of ro tons commonly known as bar-buttons, and the button, as usual.

more especially to those buttons which are The back, as shown vmore particularly in 6o designed to be set by means of metallic fas- Fig. 6, is constructed with segmental slits 5 tenings having two legs or prongs which are cut in the bottom o-f its hub and leaving a bent around the bar in the act and for the transverse bridge 6 with opposite segmental I5 purpose of setting the button. The bar in wings 7, which are to be bent up inwardly to.

this class of buttons has been made of wire ward the face of the buttonfrom opposite 6: and of sheet metal and secured in the button sides of the bridge, to form, with the bridge, in a variety of Ways. a cross-bar which is to receive the fasteningr In the present invention .the bar is made device. It will be observed that the slits are zo integral with the hub or shank of the button made withinthe plane of the bottom of the and at the bottom thereof and by slitting the hub, so as to leave a surrounding flange 8 at 7ov bottom of such hub or shank and bending inthe bottom of the hub. wardly the slit segments toward each other,` A piece of wire 9 of any desired shape in with a bar of wire inclosed within such incross-section, preferably circular, is placed z5 wardly-bent slit segments, and the legs or Within the bottom of the hub, parallel with prongs of the fastener are designed to be bent and upon the bridge 6 and with its ends rest- 75 over the bar thus formed in order to secure ing upon the flange 8 ofthe bottom ofthe hub, the button to a garment. and the segmental wings 7 are folded about The invention is applicable alike to but this bar 9, as shown more partieularlyin Figs. 3o tons having aface-plate and to those without 2 and 3. This bar 9 preferably is of less a face-plate; but for purposes of illustration length than the diameter of the hub, and the 8o I have shown the invention as applied to a folding of the wings 7 about it secures it in button having a face-plate. place, and it in turn serves as a reinforce- In the accompanying drawings, illustrating ment for the bridge and wings, thus making 3 5 my invention, in the several iiguresof which a bar of practically double strengthas comlike parts are similarly designated, Figure l paredwith bars made simply of the sheet 85 is a bottom plan view.l Fig. 2 is a cross-sec` metal of the buttonitself or bars made of tion taken in the plane of line A B, Fig. 1. lengths ofwire alone. Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken in the plane of The bending up of the segmental wings 7 4o line C D, Fig. l. Fig. 4 is atop plan view, leaves in the bottom of the hub of the button face-plate removed, showing mode of attachand on opposite sides of the bridge-piece the 9o ment tofabric. Fig. 5 is a perspective view segmental openings lO for the passage of the of one form of fastening for use in setting fastening mediuminto the button and around this kind of button.. Fig. is a bottom plan the bar. p 45 view of the slit blank. The preferred form of fastening is shown So far as shape and material are concerned in Fig. 5, and it consists of a wire having a 95 the button'member or back l, having a dehead ll bent in substantially S shape and pressed center constituting a hub or shank 2, having its opposite ends bent up to form legs and the face-plate 3, having a central openor prongs 12. By means o f suitable setting implements or machines the legs of the fastening are forced through the fabric and their ends bent or curled in opposite directions over the top of the bar, substantially as shown in Fig. 4, to effect a secure union of the button with the fabric. Any other suitable form of fastening may be used.

In the use of buttons of this general class manufacturers find that the best results are obtained by having the bar in the extreme bottoni of the button, and from a manufacturing point of view it is advantageous to make the sheet-metal portion of the bar wholly integral with the but-ton itself. Both of these desired contingencies are provided for in the button of this invention.

B'y constructing the segmental wings and the connected bridge integral with thc baci; of the button I am enabled to utilize the strength of the metal of the hub of the button, and not only so, but there is effected a very considerable economy in the manufacture of the button, since the laborincident to inserting a separately-formed bar and themachinery foreii'ecting that object are dispensed with, and, moreover, the folding of the Wings about the wire t) practically effects the centering of that Wire without special provision of labor for so placing it. It is to be noted also that not only does the Wire 9 aline With the bridge G, which is integral With the back of the button, but inasmuch as the ends of the Wire 9 rest upon the solid ange 8 of the bottom of the hub of the button vthe strain imposed upon the bar by the application oi' the fastening and in use is distributed upon the bridge and upon the solid iiange, and hence the liability of displacing the bridge or of tearing it out is for all practical purposes eliminated.

What I claim is* A bar-button, provided with a depending hub or shank having as integral members thereof, a bottom flange S, a cross-bridge 6, and segmental Wings 7 bent up from Opposite sides of said bridge toward eachother Within the button, and a reinforcing-wire embraced by said bent-up Wings and having its ends resting upon the bottom iiange of the hub.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 4th day of January, A. D. 1902.

EDVARD L. ASH LEY.

Witnesses:

T. R. HYDE, Jr., HENRY FEHL. 

